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by jwells89 867 days ago
I could easily see someone preferring macOS to Windows, with how ad-ridden and pushy 10 and 11 have become. To me it would’ve been more understandable if someone preferred Windows back in the days of 7, which I liked even as someone who’s long been disinclined from Windows.

For macOS vs. Linux it’s more fuzzy, but there are still some ways the macOS experience is a bit smoother once everything is up and running, like dodging the tinkeriness of X11 and awkwardness of the transition from X11 to Wayland… for example, you’ll never see blurry XWayland windows because someone forgot to update Electron.

That said I haven’t hackintoshed in several years. It stopped feeling as necessary after M1 came out, with my reasons for doing so being lack of power and bad cooling endemic to late 2020s Intel Macs. These days I use real Macs alongside a custom built gaming tower running Windows and ThinkPad X1 Nano running Fedora.